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THE SOUTHERN CONSERVATIVE -To Plead lor a Return ol Constitutional Government-
Vol. 12 FORT WORTH, TEXAS, MARCH, 1961 No. l
American People Entitled To Facts And Not
Rumors Concerning Controversial Situation
Those Who Are Fearful of What Foreigners
Think Had Better Bring 'Soapy' Back Home
~ Dimwitted Liberals who quake in their boots over what this or that
nation may think of us, and who use this as an excuse for attacks on
American customs and traditions, should take a long look at one of their
idols, Soapy Williams, whom the President recently sent to Africa to
size up the situation there.
From all reports of Soapy's antics and pronouncements in the Dark
Continent, the savages in the jungle over there are liable to judge Ameri­cans
pretty harshly and to wonder if the slap-happy specimen now roam­ing
around in their midst is the best example of leadership we have to
offer.
It so. they will probably decide that they will just haul off and
settle their problems with the bow and arrow.
The London Daily Telegraph complained editorially of Soapy's con·
duct at a recent reception in Kenya where it is claimed he succeeded
in amazing and offending practically every one present by his odd b e ­havior.
Congressman William E. Miller of New York is quoted as having
fmplored the President to recall him "before he spreads hoof-in-mouth
disease all over Africa."
Of course the natural impulse of a normal American is to wonder
why in the name of all that's holy the man was ever appointed as a
State Department official in the first place and why he should have been
inflicted upon, of all people, the confused and bemuddled savage tribes
in Africa who were already reeling under problems too complex for
them to understand or solve.
· In addition, to have Soapy unloaded on them would seem to be
stretching human endurance to the breaking point and adding insult to
Injury.
The answer lies in the inexplicable practices of politics and the
payola incident to a national election.
After a dozen years of valiant effort, Soapy had finally succeeded
fn bankrupting the treasury of the Grand Old State of Michigan which
he had "served" for that length of time as governor, and was on the
loose.
r As a result of some horse trade or other at the Los Angeles Con­vention,
by which Soapy is alleged to have aided in the Kennedy nom­ination,
the President found himself with the guy on his hands and didn't
know what to do with him.
That he finally decided to dump him on the frustrated and baffled
natives of the most unhappy country on the globe is either evidence
that he doesn't like the black men or that he didn't figure that the
African problem could be settled during his term, anyway.
\ At any rate, it looks like the only way out is for those who are
eternally conscious of the impression we might make on the people of
foreign countries, to lasso Soapy and drag him back home before the
befuddled Africans get the idea that all Americans are like him and
start shooting at us.
The national debt is almost $300,000,000,000.00 and yet scarcely a
day passes that bills are not dumped on Congress calling for billions of
(lollars to finance Socialistic proposals dreamed up by addle-brained
college professors. Thousands of anguished Americans are wondering
what they, as individuals, can do to help save the Republic ahd our
humble suggestion is that they demand of their representatives in Con­gress
that they vote against each and every one of these insane spending
schemes.
For years the chcr9e has been freely mode with apparently
no official denial thot the policies which ore fosterin9 the
spread of Communism throu<;~hout the world are concurred
in by a small cot<!rie of fellow travellers who hold Squatters'
Ri<;~hts in the State Depor?ment ond who ore not dislod9ed
by oily cnon9e in national administrations. Durin9 the Presi·
dentiol compoi9n no reference wos mode to these claims
althou9h the State Department is the heart of American dip·
lomotic ond forei9n relations ond the obli<;~ation to keep thot
a<;~ency stoHed with men of unchollen<;~ed loyalty is perhaps
more imperative than is the cose in ony other sector of <;!OV•
ernment. Surely some unbiased ond responsible committee
could be set up in Woshin<;~ton to thoroughly investigate the
matter ond reassure the American people once ond for oil
thot - in this dork hour when Communism is closing in on
on olormin9 segment of the earth's population - our most
vital government agency is not harborin9 ony mon or set of
men whose sympathy lies with those sworn to destroy us.
Whether one loved Senator Joe McCarthy or hated him, the irre­futable
fact remains that he knew more about Communist infiltration
into high levels"'"'of government than any other American and that this
knowledge which he sought to transmit to his fellow Americans ulti­mately
resulted in his untimely death.
As far back as 1950 he was appearing before selected groups of
citizens in this country calling names and offering proof that a small
clique of hand·picked sub-diplomats at policy level in the State Depart­ment
were guilty of activities which were not designed to protect the
internal security of the United States.
Many of these charges were reflected in the testimony of the Wis­consin
senator at the McCarthy hearings and the subsequent attacks
and smears which resulted in his death are now a matter of history.
. But the ghosts that Joe McCarthy raised have refused to be laid
and are now coming back to haunt those who crucified him for daring
to raise the issue of loyalty in a Federal government agency.
The Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal
Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws of the Committee on
the Judiciary of the United States Senate has just released testimony
of William D. Pawley which bears out many charges made by Senator
McCarthy and reveals that some of those fired by the State Department
as a result of such charges are again working in strategic positions
around over the wbrld. Mr. Pawley is a former Ambassador to Peru and
Brazil, former special assistant in the Defense Department and former
assistant in the State Department.
Mr. Pawley did not offer this testimony of his own volition. He was
subpoenaed by the Subcommittee and put under oath and he was on
the witness stand for almost two days on last September 2 and Septem­ber
8.
This testimony had no sooner been released than left-wing column­ists
as well as some Conservatives bitterly attacked Mr. Pawley appar­ently
because of their personal friendship for some of those whom he
named in his testimony.
But the significant thing is that those accused by him have the
privilege of appearing before the same Subcommittee and refuting any­thing
or everything to which he testified.
This they have not done and that should be sufficient answer to the
critics of Mr. Pawley.
(Continued on Page 21
Millions of Americans Think it - The Southern Conservative Says It
Page 2 THE S 0 U THE R N C 0 N S E R VAT IV E Morch, 1961
tcrying Need Is For National Leaders With Wh~t We Dont·. ~ant In Public
~ sense Enough To Come In Out Of The Rain Offtce Are Pohhcal Eunuchs
~ It is incredible that the American continued giving away of Ameri~ . ~en ~n:( politician ~nounces for"office ~n .~ ~Iatform ?f "moder·
people cannot seem to realize that can tax dollars to foreigners who abon ~nd ms1sts that he IS .opposed to extremist VI~ws of either those
;~~e~~g who~l~c~~nsbt!::n~:Os:"~;~ ~~fd ~~~~g:0~~~yf~rep1":::i~~ to th~~~:~~r ~o~!e~~d~t0h{~5d~':~ a; ~~~!~a~i;~!~.mg at all. f ir
''economic conditions" about which domestic gold hoard but contrib~ It is little less than criminal for would-be national leaders to as·
they now loudly complain and for utes to inflation. sume that they can take a safe, middle-of-the-road position on vital
which they are offering phony issues at a time in history when the American Republic is tottering on
~~~~~~c~ t~e~f~;;'t~~sf;;i~i~~~ tio~f~il~f~n."~~a:C,':f. {~rad~~~: ~~eh~= and beset by its enemies at home and abroad and especially
hopper by the hundreds. ister the "farm program" and bol-ster
prices of agricultural products It would be far better for high public positions of trust to remain
For instance, the administration
is asking for billions of dollars to
be allotted to the program for Fed­eral
Aid to schools and for medical
care for the aged, and for every
other project which Harvard pro­fessors
can conjure up.
What they are carefully keeping
silent about is the fact that if mem­bers
of Congress had not drained
the States of their tax money and
but the American people are ex- vacant than to be filJed by weaklings of political neuter gender.
pected to forget or remain silent This sort of an attitude merely means that the one taking it has no
~~~~~e!~ew~~c~o~~tk~~~h~~~s e~~ convictions on anything and would be afraid to express them if he did.
of a plowhorse from the other It means that he wants to run with the hare and trail with "the
have been playing po1itics with the hounds and remain aloof from the conflict in which brave and courageous
"farm problem'' and paying tax men are glad to engage for the sake of their country in its hour of need.
~~~~r:h!o~e~~;~;ai~f:g sfa~0~7 !~~: What the American Republic does not need at this or any other
ply and demand would be hard put time is political hermaphrodites in high public office.
to make heads or tails out of the Instead, it needs men with courage and blood and guts.
raised tax levies to a scale that is Congressman John W. McCor-a
national disgrace, the States In short. the same crooked poli- mack of Massachusetts has prom·
Extra, Extra! On March 6th the
Supreme Court of the United States
actually handed down a decision
unfavorable to the National Asso­ciation
for the Advancement of
Colored People. The Court refused
to review the case of eight Negroes
and some white trash convicted in
a Florida lunchroom demonstration
and who received a sentence of 60
days in jail or a $300 fine. No
cause for this extraordinary action
on the part of the Court was given.
would take care of their own edu; . ticians in Washington who are now ised strong opposition to Kennedy's
cational, medical and other pro- erving in their beer over the sad Federal Aid to education bill be­grams
and have money Jeft over Plight of the nation's economy are cause it does not include private
to help take State governments out the very birds who are responsible and parochial schools in the give­of
the red. for it and the cure for the situation away of taxpayers money. Let us
is not in giving them bil1ions of - hope that the two factions get
dollars more to strew around but locked in deadly embrace and fight
to kick them out of office and re- each other so hard that the whole
place them with loyal American rotten Socialistic measure fails to
patriots. pass. That is the only way it can
Washington politicians are also
screaming their heads off about the
"depressed areas" over the coun­try
where business has been
brought to a standstill and they
want billions to bolster the econ­omy
in those sections.
What they don't admit is that
..1ha-policY' of building up ind:u~
in foreign countries which is put­ting
American businesses out of
commission, is their own cute little
idea and that they, alone, are to
blame for the "depressed areas"
because their every official act has
been in the interest of foreign pro­ducers
and against those of the
United States.
Instead of admitting their own
incompetence, short-sightedness
and stupidity in shaping" policies of
government and in ill-advised leg­islation,
they now propose to give
business a shot in the arm by
spending billions of dollars more.
They are bleating about the gold
situation and the threat of the
further devaluation of the Ameri­can
dollar throueh inflation, but
they didn't open 'their traps when
American Presidents issued execu­tive
orders that Americans cannot
possess gold nor purchase it in
foreign lands but advocated the
The great "statesman" from Ten­nessee,
Albert Gore, sounded the
theme song of modern politics in
a speech at Atlantic City recently
when he said "we cannot any long­er
afford to Jet lack of revenue
either dictate the level of our de­fense
effort or retard the expansion
of our economy." No indeedy, let's
not pay any attention to money.
Let's do it on the cuff.
Through sixteen years of the
One-World United Nations and the
resultant meddling of each nation
into the affairs of others, the time
has been brought about when the
murder of one black savage in
Africa can threaten the peace of
the whole world. Some accomplish­ment
in the matter of upeace"!
For the past quarter century our
national leaders have been so over­sold
and under-informed on One­World
Government t ripe and Hu­-
anan Brotherhood lMdoney that tm,y
are willing to go all out to bank­rupt
American taxpayers and build
up foreign economies while letting
our own go to pot.
Very few nations in history have
been destroyed by foreign invasion
-most of them have been killed
off by the stupidity and ineptitude
of their own leaders and that is
what is happening in the United
States.
The Soviets don't need to drop
bombs on us; our own ignorance
will do the job faster and better.
All they have to do is stick around
and watch us soend ourselves out
of existence as Lenin predicted we
would do.
If there ever was a time when
any nation on the face of God's
green earth cried out for leaders
with enough sense to come in out
of the rain, that nation is the United
States and that time is now.
The Baptist churches, and espe·
cially Southern Baptists, were al­most
the last denomination among
Protestants to yield to Communist
pressure on integration of the races.
Many Baptist churches are still
holding out but influential groups
among them are gradually giving
in and falling for the old Commy
line that the forced mixing of the
races is a "Christian responsibility"
and that "Christians have Biblical
injunctions to respect lawfully con­stituted
authority.11 We congratu­late
the denomination on resisting
as long as it did the powerful Com­munist
propaganda which has com~
pelled most church groups to ac­cept
its immoral and degenerate
edicts on racial mixing.
be defeated; we can't depend on
statesmanship to do the job, for
there is definitely too little of that
commodity to be of any value to
the nation.
Who sets the policy in the Amer­ican
State Department which leads
the United States to assist Tito, a
Communist dictator and reject Tru­jillo,
an anti-Communist dictator?
When the answer to this question
is developed and made public, we
will have gone a long way toward
stopping the infiltration of Com­munism
into our government and
other institutions.
A straw in the wind indicating
administration attitude toward So ..
viets: The Defense Department ob ..
jected to the shipment to Russia
of 1.5 million dollars worth of rna ..
chine tools including forty-five ma­chines
for making components of
ball-bearing systems which could
be put to military use. The Com ..
merce Department overruled these
objections and approved the ship ..
rnent.
American People -cont;nu•d from P•g• 1
The document in which this testimony appears is titled Part 10 of
the Communist Threat to the United States Through the Caribbean, put
out by the Committee on the Judiciary of the United States Senate and
we guarantee anyone who reads its 52 pages will be a more highly fn ..
formed, if not a happier, American citizen.
To us the most appalling part of Mr. Pawley's testimony is that in
which he points out that State Department policy which gears our atti ...
tude toward foreign affairs is of anonymous origin and that during
his years with the Department he was unable to find out who were the
authors of "policy papers" which were submitted as the official pro ..
cedure under which the Department operated.
There are several schools of thought about who makes State ne ..
partment policy and if a probe into this situation did nothing more than
to clear up this point, an invaluable service would be rendered the people
because some suggestions have been advanced concerning its origin
';.~~.h tend to send cold chills up and down the spines of fearful Ameri-
At any rate, those who take the trouble to read uPart 10" will be
compelled to do some serious thinking and their meditations will inevitab·
ly take them back a decade to Joe McCarthy's warnings which were so
serious that his life was forleited.
There is an old saying that "there can be no great smoke arise but
that there must be some fire" and out of respect for this venerable slogan,
if for no other reason, the proper authorities should follow up Mr. Paw ..
ley's testimony with a report on the truth or falsity of the charges which
he makes. The American people are entitled to full information.
Nikita Khrushchev makes no secret of his intentions concerning
the American Republic. He says openly that he is going to bury us.
If he tries it, it seems to us it would be vastly comforting to the
people of this country to have assurance that no highly-placed American
pallbearers will be on hand to officiate at the burial services.
t.farch, 1961 THE SOUTHERN CONSERVATIV~ Page )
If The Paper Does Not Make Sense
This Month There's A Good Reason
It is said that it never rains but it pours and that has proved to be
true in our case for it has certainly upoured" on us during these first
hectic days of March.
• . First off, on February 28th, we came down with a particularly
\'ic10us case of flu and were in bed for a week.
While we were out of circulation because of this illness, some crook
apparently picked the lock on the front door of the building during the
mght and gamed entrance to our office and that of an adjoining tenant
where he apparently spent hours practicing our signatures and which
later turned up on forged checks.
Why any forger would select us as a victim is one of the unexplained
mysteries of all time for we operate on possibly the lowest budget of
any national publicatiOn in existence and the run-down building where
our office is located, through financial necessity, certainly would not
seem to present an inviting field to a swindler.
But apparently it did for he wrote a check on us and two on the
other tenant and incredibly the checks were honored apparently with­out
investigation or identification. The matter is now being investigated
by the proper authorities and we will never be happy until we know
who the scoundrel was who did it.
Of course neither of us lost any money since the checks were
forgeries and the two banks involved, or their bonding companies, had
to bear the loss but it was a terrible experience and one not calculated
to put us in a frame of mind to write readable copy.
As a result the paper is over a week late and if it is not up to par
we hope our readers will understand and forgive us. We hope to be able
to issue the next and future editions on time.
Even though there was no loss of money, the incident was very
upsetting although we realize that we should be thankful that it was
no worse.
Shameful Behavior By Members
Of The United States Senate
One of the most pronounced
examples of political cowardice
ever witnessed in a lawmaking
body was demonstrated by the vote
In the United States Senate on the
confirmation of a Negro, Robert C.
Weaver, as Federal Housing Ad­ministrator
on February 9th.
While it is the prerogative, of
course, of the Senate to cast a
voice vote instead of a record vote
on any matter, there was so much
controversy concerning this partic­ular
appointment that the people
had a right to expect each member
of the Senate to let his constitu­ents
know how he stood on the
matter. But the Congressional Rec­ord
of that date shows only that
the Negro "was confirmed."
It is widely reported that only
twenty members of the Senate
were present when this vote was
taken, leaving eighty members un­accounted
for on this issue. We
made every attempt to get this in­formation
from officials of the Sen­ate
in order to confirm that only
twenty were present, but were un­successful.
So we must take the report at
face value and accept the conclu~
sion that only twenty members
were present. This could mean that
eighty members of that body were
ashamed to vote for Weaver and
afraid not to and settled it by duck·
ing out during the vote. At any
rate, it appears to us as a rather
cowardly way to handle a matter
which has caused much concern
to the American people.
Those who were for confirming
this particularly obnoxious appoint­ment
should have been willL.1g to
go on record to this effect; those
opposed, likewise.
Trouble makers in the govern­ment
who are constantly harping
on "racial discrimination" are prac­ticing
it themselves. They insist
that all citizens should be treated
alike in employment "without re­gard
to color." Yet, the Kennedy
administration, according to the
press, has begun a new drive "to
recruit Negro co1lege graduates for
Federal jobs." If they believe in
treating all alike and if they need
new Federal employees, which they
don't, why not simply "recruit col­lege
graduates for Federal jobs"?
Why specify Negroes? Isn't that
"discrimination" a g a i n s t racial
groups or does it depend on whose
ox is gored?
The big downtown store of S. H.
Kress and Company in Fort Worth,
whose New York owners ordered
their lunch counters integrated
sometime ago, has closed its doors
and a "for lease" sign hangs on
the door. It is the first time within
memory when there has not been
a Kress store in downtown Fort
Worth. How much the integration
order had to do with it is not
known. Certainly it didn't help
business any.
When the hate-mongering, rab­ble-
rousing Negro Martin Luther
King went to New York recently
to raise money for his Southern
Christian Leadersbip Conference,
he dropped the word "Christian"
out of the title and just called it
the "Southern Leadership Confer­ence."
Apparently he thought that
an unpopular designation in the
nation's largest and most populous
city, for some reason or other.
Ignorant
Educated
Men Are Bad But
Fools Are Worse
It is becoming clearer by the hour that there will be no limit and
no let-up in the insane proposals which Harvard professors and other
professional do-gooders are going to hatch up for adoption as American
policy now that a majority Gf the nation's addled eggheads have been
~pted for service in running the government .
Perhaps there will be worse yet to come but undoubtedly the most
ill-considered, asinine and idiotic proposal yet advanced is that known
as a Peace Corps or Youth Corps which, instead of lessening our med­dling
activities throughout the world which are stirring up new enemies
by the hour, would aggravate our interference in the affairs of other
nations.
Assuming with unpardonable impudence and arrogance that we
know it all and that other countries can't wait to share our superior
knowledge, the Harvard planners propose that a horde of wet-behind­the-
ears graduates from left-wing American colleges and universities
fan out over the world to "educate" tbe people of the backward coun­tries
around the globe.
Completely ignoring the fact, aside from all other obnoxious fea ..
tures of the plan, that the first years out of school are the ones in which
worthwhile young Americans are supposed to qualify for careers as re ..
sponsible citizens in a free Republic, the eggheads would have mass
production of global social welfare workers, a profession that is without
standing in responsible society.
Also, it would insure the completion of the infiltration of the minds
of Am~rican young people with Communist doctrine. a process that is
~~~~ m most of the colleges and universities from which they would
If this screwball program is actually put into effect and we send
swanns of half-baked students barging into other countries on their
self-imposed mission of eliminating ignorance and "educating" people
of foretgn lands, we hope each and every one of them gets a swift kick
in the pants and is sent back home.
I
Any self-respecting, red-blooded and normal American would be
burned up if a pack of graduates from foreign universities invaded this
country with the ridiculous and absurd intention of "educating" us
and we have no reason to think that the citizens of other countries
wo~ld not be equally resentful of such unwarranted and presumptuous
action on our part.
As was naturally to be expected, the harebrained proposal is said
to have the full approval of Eleanor Roosevelt who added her twa bits
by proposing, in effect, that if they ran out of backward people to edu·
cate, they could swoop down on the slums of this country and begin
the educational process there, and she added happily that this would
be a fine occupation for young married couples who could be sent into
our depressed areas to urevitalize" them.
So this new venture in national policy may not only banish ignorance
and cause knowledge to blossom throughout the earth but may also
open up new careers to ambitious youth. Instead of having a profession,
a craft or a calling as preparation for acquiring a family, a young man
may soon be able to grab himself a bride and skip down in the slums
and start revitalizing things all over the place.
The American Republic is in far less danger from ignorance than it
is from the damage which may be done by educated fools from Harvard
and we think this holds true also of the backward countries of the world.
"We are convinced that if do­mestic
Communists--so powerful­ly
assisted by American fellow
travelers, pseudo liberals, oppor­tunists
and dupes - continue as
1ittle exposed and opposed as here­tofore,
the United States of Amer·
ica will inevitably fall into the
hands of the USSR, without a bomb
dropped." - Catholic Freedom
FoundatiOn.
Senator Styles Bridges of New
Hampshire, chairman of the Sen­ate
Republican Policy Committee,
says he will continue to try to
bring about an investigation sur:
rounding the circumstances of the
release of the two American flyers
by Russia recently. There is some
talk of a possible deal which migbt
have been made with the Soviets
while Kennedy was still President­elect,
and some Republicans ques­tion
his right to negotiate before
he took office. However, with a
heavy Democratic majority, in Con­gress,
Kennedy is expected to tor­pedo
any attempt to get at the
truth of the matter.
For the Congress of the United
States to appropriate billions of
dollars to initiate Socialistic proj­ect,
s in response to the whims and
fancies of fuzzy-brained college
professors is criminal abuse of the
legislative function and a policy
which can as surely destroy the
American Republic as a hundred
bombs dropped on us simultan­eously.
"I do not entertain murderers or
thieves or rapists or swindlers or
forgers in my home. To do so would
express my approval of the actions
of these individuals. Should we, as
the people of a united, freedom·
loving nation, consent to a stand­ard
of morality in our relations
with other nations which we would
reject as individuals?" - Excerpt
from Senator Barry Goldwater's
reasons why the United States
should withdraw diplomatic recog·
nition of Russia.
Fifty-three per cent of the popu·
lation of Washington, D.C. is Ne·
gro and 87 per cent of the students
in school there are colored.
Page 4 THE SOUTHERN CONSERVATIVE
The Southern
Conservative
Nothing Ever Happens Of Its Own
Accord. Everything Is Planned
'MONTHLY PUBLICATION OF
EDITORIAL OPINION WITH
NATIONAL CIRCULATION
IDA M, DARDEN, Editor
Even as morons in the TeXas legislature were arguing for the pass~
age of a bill designed.to save criminals from just and proper puni shment,
the most heinous crime of the century v:as occurring in New York where
a fiend in human form was murdering and mutilating a little four-year~
old girl.
It is believed, and hoped, that this inhuman atrocity has temporarily
. put a damper on similar attempts to bring about the abolishment of
capital punishment. Normal persons feel that burning would be too mer·
ciful for the New York monster and- are less likely to be taken in by
organized Communist propaganda for ..doing away with the electric chair.
_ If the American people could only understand that nothing ever
happens in this country but that everything is planned in advance and
springs from a common source, they would be better able to withstand
the propaganda campaigns which are launched and carried out in the
United States, one after the other.
Edit orial Offieea Flat iro n Building
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members of State leqi1latures, Governor~,
•ndotherpublicoffici•ls.
A helpless spa rrow ean drift with
the wind but it takes an eagle to fly
against the storm.
THE TENTH AMENDMENT TO
THE CONSTITUTION OF
THE UNITED STATES:
The powers not delegated to the United
States by the Constitution, nor prohibited
~Y it to the States are reserved to the
~fates re,pectively, or to the people.
eo n t'r m
Virginia Gets Th~ Last
And Loudest La ugh
Speaker Sam Rayburn of Texas
was successful in packing the Rules
Committee of the House of Rep·
resentatives by a close vote but
that grand patriot from Virginia,
Congressman Howard W. Smith,
had the last laugh.
The powerful Rules Committee
of the House has heretofore served
to restrain silly and fantastic legis­lation
from going to the floor. And
no one has used the Committee
more than the Speaker when he
didn't want certain bills to take
up the valuable time of the House.
But following the close victory
for his party last Fall, Mr. Rayburn
became quite virtuous and decided
that the Rules Committee would
prevent some of the New Frontier
measures from consideration and
that this wasn't right.
So Chairman Smith also made a
decision and that was to turn loose
all legislation, good, bad and in~
different and let the House have
a go at it.
"Who am I." he as good as
said, "to withhold any measure
from consideration by my col~
leagues? From this time on, they
will get the works."
If Congress doesn't get much
time during the current session to
consider important legislation be~
cause the hopper is clogged with
petty measures of no interest to
anyone except their authors, who
is there to say that it doesn't serve
Mr. Rayburn right?
As in the case of racial mixing propaganda, the abolishing of States
Rights, Federal Aid to Education, Foreign Aid, Socialized Me.dical ~are
for the Aged, and all the other evils which are gradually bemg fo1sted
upon the American people, each movement is carefully mapped out by
foes of this country and every detail planned in advance.
The next step is to enlist the help of their unfailing sources of sup­port
in this country such as a small group in the American State De­partment,
in the Congress and in other agencies of government, educa­tional
and religious leaders as well as dim-witted eggheads and do­gooders
in all walks of life. In no time at all the proposed campaign to
add something new or abolish something old is in full swing and has all
the appearance of a popular public demand, so powerful are the oper­ations
of experienced world propagandists.
These propaganda campaign gimmicks have been worked so often
in this country in the past twenty-five years that the grou,2..s referr~d
to above automatically fall in line each time a new econom1c or soc1al
movement is launched and they perform like sheep being herded into
a dipping vat. It is always these same segments who bacl~ each new
Red innovation and it is they who are pushing the abolishment of
capital punishment. .
And the average American with his head in the sand 1s amazed
as cherished American traditions, customs and ideals are torn out root
and branch but he dumbly ascribes it to "the needs and demands of a
changing world."
When, and if, the American people ever wake up to t~e fact th~t
conspirators against the United States manipulate Am~ncan pubhc
op\n\on llke Edgar Bergen manipulates t~e dummy. on h1s lap, let us
hope that it won't be too late to do anythmg about 1t ..
Stupidity in a citizen is a far greater danger to soc1ety than knavery
in a leader. A corrupt leader can be deposed but there is no recourse
against fools who are blind to what is taking place before their eyes.
It Can't Happen Here?
It's Already Happening
The American people should not need any reminder of the preva·
lence of Communist sentiment in the United States and of its powerful
hold on persons in high places but if they do, the exper~en.ce ?f a Holly­wood
movie producer who is trying to present a patnohc f1lm should
provide such reminder.
Robert Reisbeck filmed the movie "The Eleventh Commandment''
which was shot on the islands of Formosa and Quemoy, but when he
sought to release the picture he had an agonizing example ?f the
stranglehold which International Communism has on the entertamment
industry in the United States.
According to an interview which Mr. Reisbeck gave to a Fort
Worth newspaper man while in this city, Mr. Elston Brooks of the Fort
Worth Star-Telegram, it was impossible to release the picture in New
York, the nation's leading city, where theater managers refused to rent
buildings to him, even those which had been shuttered for months.
Mt. Reisbeck had official Washington permission to shoot the pic·
ture and endorsement of the finished product but could not break through
the Iron Curtain which enshrouds the movie industry in major American
cities.
The producer told how those who had backed the film would re·
ceive anonymous calls from "voices that quietly recited the names of
the listener's children and what time they got out of school."
The Interstate Circuit in Texas proved an exception, according to
Mr. Reisbeck and this chain gave permission for the use of their theaters
in showing the film which drew record crowds. The showing in Fort
Worth was heavily attended and expressions of amazement at the con­ditions
revealed by the film, were widespread.
The "Eleventh Commandment" by the way which furnishes the
title of the show is: 'T hou Shalt Not Enslave Thy Brother."
Naturally, the production could not have been exhibited in Russia
where enslavement of the people is part of the basic philosophy of the
Communist government.
But there is almost equal opposition to the picture in the United
States, as it turns out, and if there are any stupid dopes who still insist
that " It can't happen here," the experience of this great American pic·
ture producer in trying to exhibit a patriotic film should make them
feel like the asses which they are.
March, 1961
Atrocities In Congo
Continue As U.N.
Forces Prove Helpless
Press dispatches from the CongO
on March 14th to ld of further out·
rages against white people in that
area where "indescribable humiJi. ..
ations" were practiced on helpless
victims by savage members of
tribes who are constantly being
accepted in the United Nations as
civilized States.
Terror spread through the Prov·
ince of Kivu and complete anarchy
reigned throughout the area, the
press release stated. Repeated
criminal attacks on women mis~
sionaries and Catholic nuns were
reported and the bestial behavior
was claimed to be of a nature that
could not be published.
All this happened presumably
while United Nations troops sent
to preserve order were running for
cover. "A United Nations spokes·
man said the behavior of the Kivu
population and the pro-Lumumba
troops was bestial but gave no in·
dication the United Nations forces
there were able to do anything
about it," the dispatch said.
Thus the United Nations main·
tains its one hundred per cent
record for ineffectiveness in any
and all situations but instead of a
determination on the part of U.S.
authorities to pull us out of the
outfit, their concern seems to be
as to whether or not Red China
will be admitted as a member of
the One-World organization. And
if the Red heathens are admitted,
we probably will not withdraw
even then.
We are afraid that nothing short
of national tragedy will awaken
the American people and our na·
tional leaders to the danger of ex ..
termination which faces us as a
result of our total failure to put
the security of the United States
before that of any and all other
nations on earth.
That is a simple law of self·
preservation without which no na·
tion can survive the conspiracies
constantly directed against it.
Somewhere some pretty thor·
ough homework has been done
when one of the most leftwing
publications in the country is able
to put on a television spectacular
to advertise its product and is able
to persuade the President of the
United States to appear on the
program. We can't help speculat·
ing on how quickly a patriotic pub·
lication would be turned down who
tried the same stunt.
New Frontiersmen in Congress
are claimed not to be getting much
encouragement in their plans to
provide for I 00 or so new Federal
judgeships. But we'll bet if they
would propose to do away with
100 of those we already have, the
whole country would swing behind
them.
Under present law retired Fed ..
eral government employees who
are receiving annuities up to as
much as three hundred dollars per
month may still get unemployment
compensation provided they agree
to accept any employment offered
them, but can find no job.
Macch, 1961 THE SOUTHERN CONSERVATIVE Page 5
Appointment Of Anti-Communist. Results
In Strong fight Against Confirmation
We have always insisted that
the Senate of the United States
would confirm, without anything
except token opposition, anybody
for office a President might name
regardless of such appointee's fit­ness
or qualifications for the job
but that is not quite true.
Perhaps James Roosevelt Is More
Deserving Of Sympathy Than Scorn
We had not taken into consid­eration
that sometime, inadvert­ently,
a good American with no
connections that were suspect,
might be named and that has now
happened.
Through some miscalculation,
Charles M. Meriwether who has
not been tarred with the Com­munist-
approved label of "integra­tionist''
was appointed by the Pres­ident
as a Director of the Export­Import
Bank and his name was
sent to the Senate for confirmation.
Whereupon certain members of
the Senate who had voted for every
sorry specimen of humanity who
had been paraded before them,
without blinking an eye, jumped in
with both feet in a determined
fight to keep the liberal, left-wing
pattern from being fractured by
the acceptance of a sound, clear·
thinking and loyal American as a
member of the team.
The opposition to Mr. Meri·
wether was led by Jakie Javits of
New York, a so-called Republican
who was assisted by Wayne Morse
of Oregon, a so-called Democrat,
both of whom proved that parti­sanship
quickly melts away and
party lines disappear when it comes
to uniting in a fight on their com·
mon enemies--conservative, loyal
American patriots.
The nominee was confirmed but
he faced the stiffest opposition,
and practically the only opposition,
to any of Kennedy's appointments
and he has named some odd ones
for sure.
One of the newest and most ef·
fective weapons that International
Communism is using to spread that
vile doctrine throughout the world
is made up of college students in
the United States and other coun ..
tries. These immature and emo·
tional youngsters are easily indoc·
trinated and excited and will en·
gage in any subversive activity
their masters dictate just for the
kick they get out of it. Unless
strong measures are taken to put
them in their place these young
radicals will continue to be a threat
to orderly government throughout
the world.
"We feel we supported and help­ed
to elect a candidate who ran
on a political platform. We know
what's in that platform because
we helped draft it. As far as we
are concerned, we expect the suc·
cessful candidate to carry out the
platform in the days ahead when
he takes over his job as President
of the United States" - George
Meany, AFL·CIO head following
the November election, and refer·
ring to the Union's captive presi·
dent in the White House.
Movement To Repeal Income Tax
Amendment Spreading To All States
~'Systematically reduce the pow·
er of businessmen by confiscation
of their income at the source
through a tax on income." It was
Karl Marx who said this and not
realizing the source of the idea the
American Congress passed the 16th
amendment in 1913, says the Or·
ganization to Repeal Federal In·
come Tax, Inc., of Los Angeles and
adds:
"Now, we are so used to it, we
consider it inevitable. The horror
is, that once we had it made law,
there is no way to limit it, until
now it has become a destroyer of
the very liberties which the Con·
stitution was supposed to protect.
"We know some taxes are neces­sary.
But no tax is needful that
destroys. The cry is always raised
when abolishing the income tax
is discussed, ''But where will the
money come from to run the gov·
ernment?" Well, believe it or not,
by certain simple steps such as get·
ting the government out of compe­tition
with private business, elim·
inating wasteful government spend­ing,
and retiring the national debt
(and interest!), it can be done.
"But there is an even more im­portant
fact. The tax is morally,
ethically, ideologically wrong. It
is confiscatory. It gives the Ameri·
can government power it has no
business having. It allows govern-ment
to intrude upon Jiberties, con·
trol business, decide whether or not
business ran accumulate capital,
merge, or depreciate machinery. It
can seiz~ your home, your assets,
and send you to prison .for not
keeping books.
4 'There is a wry cartoon around
somewhere, showing an American
of today talking to the picture of
his Revolutionary ancestor, uGreat·
great Grandfather, if you thought
'Taxation without Representation'
was bad, you should see what it's
like with representation!" That is
too true to be comfortable.
4'The Organization to Repeal Fed­eral
Income Taxes is a movement,
headed by distinguished citizens,
to restore the liberties of the Amer·
ican people. Response to their lead·
ership is mounting by the day. They
are launching a new nation-wide
program to organize chapters in
every state. The objective is to get
two-thirds of the state legislatures
to demand that the Congress sub­mit
to the states the proposal for
repeal of this tax. Your member·
ship and support are needed. Four
states, Louisiana, Texas, Nevada,
and Wyoming have passed the pro­posal.
Others are now considering
it. There must be a ground swell
of grass roots support or the move·
ment will fail, and our doom is in­evitable!"
When Corruption Thrives At The Top
Breakdown In Public Morals Inevitable
If, as an American, you are
amazed that the crime rate in the
United States, including juvenile
delinquency, is increasing at an
alarming and unbelievable rate,
perhaps the information in a re­cent
press release with a Washing­ton
date-line may be enlightening.
This press release revealed that
the House Appropriations Commit·
tee had discovered that the mili·
tary services have been ''padding"
their requests for funds by nearly
$20,000,000.00 per year.
A secret investigation by that
Committee brought out that the
Defense Department in its budget
for the last two years had asked
for funds for 32,000 more housing
units than existed.
The Committee also revealed
that both the Navy and Marine
Corps put in separate requests for
funds for the upkeep of the same
6,285 housing units.
And all three services requested
funds to operate and maintain 14,·
000 housing units for which up­keep
had already been paid out of
other funds.
Of course nothing will be done
about it because, since the transi­tion
from a Free Republic to a
Socialist State, the American gov­erning
system is becoming so
steeped in corrupt and dishonest
practices that the matter will prob­ably
be laughed off. In fact, the
Committee referred to the whole
thing as a "Comedy of Errors." To
hard-pressed taxpayers, however,
the misapplication of millions of
dollars should not be funny.
At any rate, with dishonesty in
government rampant, is it surpris­ing
that public crime and juvenile
delinquency is increasing faster
than the law can cope with it?
No nation is stronger than its
leaders and when morality breaks
down at the top, a weakened moral
fiber of the people is the inevitable
result.
Otto Pre min g e r, Hollywood
movie producer, with all of the ar·
rogance of some of the characters
he has portrayed on the screen in
his acting days, announced in the
press recently that he had no apol­ogy
for having hired Dalton Trum~
bo, cited as a member of Com·
munist fronts, to write uExodus"
and that he would do the same
thing if he had it all to do over.
For some reason, defenders of
Communists seem to be getting
bolder and more assured these
days. We wonder what is behind
their cockiness and their impudent
manner when discussing the sub·
ject.
"Wh-en the House of Represent~
atives voted overwhelmingly for
i~:O ax~~f~~!:!i~~:::~:~:euan~:n;~l~:!
two or three voted with him, don't
you imagine James Roosevelt was
humiliated, embarrassed and
ashamed at his poor showing?"
;;;r!~es a subscriber from Minneap: ~
No, we don't imagine that he
was in the least humiliated, em ..
barrassed or ashamed. Those emo ..
tions are never experienced by
members of the Roosevelt tribe. ~ ~
It should be kept in mind that
~~~-~~m!~~~~~e~~~;!';~fes b~at~i~ I
ally, having inherited them from
both sides of his family. f 1
Disregarding the fact that three
previous Presidents had refused to
recognize the Soviet barbarians, ~
Franklin D. Roosevelt took them
to his bosom by extending recog ..
nition to that uncivilized nation
and for as long as he lived, he was
putty in the hands of Stalin. ~
And during her husband's tenure
of the White House, Eleanor Roose·
velt's partiality to the Soviets was
obvious to all who had eyes to see
and brains to reason. The joint l
was always jumping with young
Communists who overflowed the ,
house and spilled out over the lawn '
and she was among the very first
~~~h~~~1~n~yn~~~~~\~n~h~n~m;~~: \
~i:'.1~nr~cf.;a~~l~~i~.oscow's llegen-i
Few suspected Communist
agents ever ran afoul of the law
or faced exposure that she did not
rush into print and defend them
with all the prestige and influence
which her position gave her and
if repeated charges that she be·
longed to some forty-five Com·
munist fronts feazed her, she gave
no public evidence of it.
So, rather than feeling humili·
ated, embarrassed and ashamed
that he was so soundly trounced
in his efforts to help the Com­munist
cause by stopping all in ..
vestigation into the matter, we
imagine that James Roosevelt takes
comfort in the fact that he fought
a good fight in defense of a philos­ophy
in which he believes and that
his reward will come in the knowl·
edge ·that he will continue to be
the idol of pimply·faced Reds on
the campus of every Liberal Amer ..
ican college.
Those who believe in heredity
should perhaps feel more sympathy
than scorn for a man who is a vic·
tim of his parents' ideological be·
liefs, and who imbibed his Marxist
views around the family hearth•
stone.
"We're a young group and we're
going to take over" - Little Bro·
ther Bobby Kennedy.
John F. Kennedy said during the
campaign last Fall that, if elected,
he was "going to pick up where
FOR left off". And FOR left off
just short of a Socialist dictator·
ship.
Pogo 6 THE SOUTHERN CONSERVATIVE March, 1961
frightening Advalllce Toward federal I
Dictatorship Indicated In Latest Move
If Church Council Would fight Communism
for A Change The Enemy Would Be Whipped
This looks like it might be it. At - --- ----­Lovers
of pornography and sex
discussions would have had a field
day if they had attended the meet·
ing of the National Council of
Churches at Syracuse, New York
receiltly.
Was Secret Concession
Made To Communists?
It infuriates any deCent, self-re­:
Specting American to see all the
luror that was made over the re­lease
of two American flyers who
were illegally shot down by the
forces of the Kremlin gangsters
While flying over international ter­ritory
last summer.
least it brings Federal dictatorship
frighteningly close to actuality.
The Justice Department on
March 15 asserted that Federal
courts have the Constitutional pow~
er to force reapportionment of
rural~dominated State Legislatures.
What part of the Constitution
vests this authority in Federat
courts was not pointed out and we
are unable to find it. But who are
It was made to appear that the we to interpret the Constitution
Communists were being generous under the modern conception of
J>::~~e~~3~a~~i~~n~~!Ywhn0~e~~aes; this great document?
'literally kidnapped out of the air The Solicitor General said in a
and made prisoners. ~~~~f ~1~~d v~~~~s ~~ ~~:~;~t~~~~.;
There was a time when these are deprived of their civil rights
tnen would have been released im~ under the 14th amendment.
mediately or else, and those re-t~~~
s~;:nf%a~~ei~o c~~~u~~rwt~~~i~
'criminal act in shooting down their
plane.
But that was in the d~ys of strong
leadership; when the United States
commanded respect of the world
b~eenod~~~~ne~;l~s~o~~e~:Cf~~~
citizen for fear of instant reprisal.
In Washington, it was suggested
that the President had made some
concession to secure the release of
the men but when newsmen at his
first press conference tried to pry
this information out of him, he
skillfully evaded a direct reply.
There is little doubt in the minds
of many that some promise was
made to Khrushchev for the arch
criminal in the Kremlin would not
otherwise have freed the flyers. It
Is believed that the President
agreed there would not be any
more U-2 flights over Russia for
the present.
Recently in a Sunday magazine
supplement there was a long article
which said that old crock churns
are being collected and are now
considered as antiques of priceless
value. There was an effort made
to explain this phenomenon but we
suspect that is a form of nostalgia
for things as they used to be. In
this Brave New World of ours, we
have discarded moral values an4
have set up pseudo standards under
which civilization is gradually'
crumbling, and perhaps this return
to the churn is merely an uncon­scious
clutching back towards cus­toms
and institutions which were
wholesome, substantial and solid.
It could be.
Loud-talking left-wingers in
Congress are bragging on their
"victory" in the Rules Committee
packing which they hope will mean
clear sailing for Marxist legisla­tion.
The two new so-called dem­ocratic
members are already
smirched with the stigma which is
implied in the assumption that they
will vote right down the line when
Mr. Sam cracks the whip. No man's
vote should be subsidized in ad·
vance of consideration of the mea­sure
on which he will be called to
pass judgment.
Legislatures are 11subverting re­sponsible
State government," fail­ing
to meet pressing urban needs
and discriminating against city
people on matters of taxation by
their failure to change voting dis­tricts
to meet shifts in population,
the Solicitor General said.
In our ignorance, we thought
reapportionment was the sole re­sponsibility
of State Legislatures
who could act in the matter ac~
cording to their own wishes and
could reapportion if they saw fit
or refuse to do so if they so de­sired.
But the Solicitor General says
it's not that way at all and tha
Federal judges can do tlie JO i
legislatures fail to act.
Perhaps the American people
should have been prepared for this
in view of much propaganda on
the subject in recent months, in
which it has been claimed that
cities were being discriminated
against. And only the night before
the announcement by the Solicitor
General, a big television broadcast
portrayed how the various State
Legislatures were operating against
the interests of "urban" popula­tions.
Of course the overall objective is
to give more power to big cities
for it is in these areas that Liberal
sentiment abounds and it is this in­fluence
that is needed to bolster
sentiment for Socialist legislation.
Any way, another gap may soon
be closed between Federal and
State governments and the all-pow­erful
Federal State assume author­ity
that was undreamed of when
Constitutional Government pre­vailed
in the United States.
There are three important events
on which the American people are
entitled to have full information
because these three events bear
heavily on the Communist Con­spiracy
against the United States
and who is behind it. But this in­formation
will never be forthcom­ing
because it would be too re­vealing
of treason in high places.
These three events were the death
of Count Bernadette in the Spring
of 1948, the promotion of Peress
and the murder of Paul Bang-Jen­sen.
The American people may
speculate and guess about what
happened in these three cases but
they will never know the truth.
To Kill An Octopus
Shoot Him Squarely
Between The Eyes
(Father Ginder in the Sunday Visitor)
When a skin-diver is attacked by
an octopus, he is a fool if he tries
to go at the thing one tentacle after
another: first, the tentacle around
his chest, then the one around his
right thigh, hoping eventually to
cut himself free. No, what he must
do is to go for the head-plunge
that knife between the eyes, in and
out, a dozen times, for if he can
finish that off, he has put the
whole animal out of commission.
I have just finished reading-to
me it seems-for the thousandth
time in the last 16 years, the same
message framed this time in words
for Reader's Digest by Gen. Carlos
P. Romulos, Philippine ambassador
to the United States. Entitled
"America, Wake Up!", it is sum­marized
in the editors• blurb:
11A wise and loyal friend of the
United States warns us: The cold
war is real war . .. It is far later
than we know ... The Communists
can win without changing their
tactics ... We cannot win without
changing ours ... We must assume
the offensive ... We dare not stand
still ... To do so is to continue
to lose ground. This is a stern and
urgent appeal. It is one that no
American can afford to ignore."
Our pr nc pal goal ln fighting
this war is to cut off the head of
the octopus that threatens us, by
overthrowing Khrushchev and all
the bloody crew that connive with
him in enslaving so much of the
world.
Why do we let ourselves be dis­tracted
by Berlin, Laos, or the Con­go?
Why not go straight for the
jugular? Why not organize and fi­nance
underground movements
from the Black Sea all the way up
to the Baltic, aimed at creating un­rest,
eventual revolution, and final
liberation of the captive nations?
It is even easier than it sounds,
for despite the bland assurances
of the Liberal press, the captive
peoples are wretchedly unhappy
and Khrushchev each day receives
fresh proof that he cannot trust
even his own soldiers.
During World War II, an esti­mated
350,000 Communist troops
deserted and went over to the
=~~~fc;n!ft~~~~~~~i;ie~f h:~o~~~~g~
who had fled from Russia had to
be rounded up for return at bayo­net
point.
(This was known as uoperation
Keelhaul." They were American
and British bayonets wielded by
American and British soldiers un­der
orders from "higher author­ity.")
Thousands of these people slash·
ed their own wrists rather than
face return to the Soviet Paradise.
During the Hungarian battle for
freedom a few years ago, more
than 10,000 Red soldiers crossed
over to the revolutionaries. Buda­pest
had to be retaken by forces
rushed in from Mongolia.
(Franco wanted to fly in troops
and supplies for the Freedom
This church group which claims
a membership of between 35 and
40 million and which concerns it­self
with practically every subject
on earth except religion, spent
most of its time at Syracuse dis·
cussing and reading papers on birth
control, going into the most inti­mate
details of the matter and
leaving little to the imagination.
In the end they passed a resolu·
tion favoring what they called
"family-planning" after having ex·
hausted all phases and angles of a
subject which has always been
largely considered as an intimate
matter between husband and wife.
Much speculation has been in­dulged
in as to why so much time
is devoted by these old duffers to
a subject which is academic in
their own cases at least. Irreverent
observers have suggested that they
must get a vicarious kick out of
tossing the matter back and forth
under the pretense that they are
undertaking to decide it in the in·
terest of society at large.
The National Council is a po­tentially
powerful organization,
heavily financed and capable of
rendering service. If it would only
quit messing with things that are
none of its business and would en­list
its boasted 35 or 40 million
members in fighting Communism,
for a change, the enemy would be
whipped in no time at all.
Idiocy gone to seed: We are told
that, as individuals, we cannot pur­chase
gold in foreign lands and at
the same time that we must con­tinue
giving away billions of our
tax dollars to foreigners who may
exchange them for American gold.
Fighters, and Vienna was all set to
agree that they could fly over
Austrian territory, until a stiff note
arrived from our State Department
forbidding it.)
The daily leakage from East
Germany to the free world is well
known-at least 300 a day. Despite
the rather copious Foreign Aid
which we American taxpayers have
put at his disposal, Tito seems un­able
to hold the thousands fleeing
each year from his slave state into
Italy and Austria.
In a surprisingly revealing state­ment
to his Chinese satraps, Khru­shchev
admitted recently that, "It
would be wrong for Communism
to test the stability of Capitalism
by force. The people would never
understand and would never sup­port
those who took it into their
heads to act this way."
His real meaning, as interpreted
by one expert: "We are but a hand­ful
holding, only by terror, millions
in subjection, who can never be
induced to use arms to impose the
horror and slavery they are exper­iencing
on the rest of the world.
Therefore, if we are to succeed,
we must, above all, maintain peace
and subjugate the rest of the world
by subversion.'"
Moreh, 1961 THE SOUTHERN CONSERVATIVE Page )
Moscow Could Destroy Us But
Washington Is More Likely To
As evidence that he is 11for"
somethin·g and not "agin" every~
thing, the incomparable writer and
lecturer of Nashville, Mr. Tom An~
derson, editor of Farm and Ranch,
has come up with another batch of
things which meet his approval, as
follows:
"Well, what're you going to be
against this month?" my friend in~
quired. ''I'll bet you couldn't pos­sibly
come up with another page
telling what you're for."
As the fellow who had to ride
with his mother-in-law at his wife's
funeral said to the undertaker: "I'll
do it, but it's going to ruin my
whole day."
I'm for "urban renewal for all
cities who want to pay all the cost
themSelves. For Harry Truman for
a psychiatrist's couch. For ridicul~
ing beatniks-phonies who make
a fad out of failure. For getting
out of the U.N. and getting into a
world organization composed only
of those nations who believe in and
practice the freedom and dignity
of the individual. For encouraging
those who would "rather crawl on
their knees to Moscow than to die
under an atom bomb" to start
crawling, and good riddance. For
remembering the Cold War abroad
and the Cold War at home are di­rectly
related; and that we cannot
possibly win the Cold War abroad
unless we win the Cold War at
home; that although Moscow could
possibly destroy us, Washington is
more likely to.
I'm for beginning, now, regular
payments on the national debt,
which is the largest any nation
has ever known. For paying it off
ourselves rather than stealing from
our children's children.
I'm for allowing gangsters ar·
rested while in peaceful, private
assembly like those in Appalachin,
N.Y., the same Constitutional im ..
munities as are granted our Com·
munist citizen criminals. The gang·
sters were arrested and jailed on
mere suspicion, with no evidence
that they were planning a job big­ger
than a bridge tournament or a
course in flower arranging. Yet
other known criminals, Commu·
nists dedicated to the overthrow
of our country, are untouchable!
If touched, our touched Supreme
Court turns 'em loose.
I'm for replacing politicians who
vote for whatever their constitu·
ents want, right or wrong, with
voting machines. This would be a
real economy. And in many cases
the voting machine would give us
better representation. For publish·
ing, periodically, the salaries and
expense accounts of public em·
ployees. For preventing public em·
ployees from spending any gover~·
ment time, money or eqmpmen~ m
any political campaign. For restnc~·
ing political contributions to indt·
viduals-no corporations, co·ops,
or unions.
I'm for farmers deciding what
the farm program will be-only
when we let Reuther decide what
the labor program will be, when
we let the oil companies decide
what the depletion allowance will
be, and when we let magazine pub·
lishers decide what the postage
rates will be. For defining how John
Kennedy's ''New Frontier" differs
from Socialism. Mussolini and Hit·
ler also had their "New Frontier."
They made the trains run on time,
went "forward" to unheard of pro·
duction goals. I'm for moral law
above expediency. For practicing
what you preach. As National Cot­ton
Council's Ed Lipscomb says,
"Just as the temperance lecturer
who gets drunk is a greater lia·
bility to his cause than is the ad·
mitted barfly, so the businessman
who preaches free enterprise while
he participates in programs of po·
litical intervention is a greater lia·
bility than the admitted Socialist."
For making radio and TV sta·
tions who're still fighting Nazism
and Fascism give "equal time" to
fighting the "New Frontier"-So­cialism-
Communism. For making
display of the hammer and sickle
an equal crime with display of the
swastika. For according Fascists
equal "human rights" with Com·
munists. For revival of the old
slogan: "Buy American." And for
adding: "Be American, Think Amer ..
ican, Act American." For revising
Hull's outdated Reciprocal Trade
Agreements to make our foreign
trade really reciprocal. For trading
to win, not to lose. For changing
government policies which have
ruined or are ruining our watch,
coal, textile, glass, cutlery, steel,
china ware (87 per cent of the china­ware
bought in the U.S. last year
was produced by foreign countries)
and many other industries. I'm for
halting the flight of American in­vestment
capital from this country
by offering more freedom and a
better deal at home. We've given
two million jobs to foreign friends
and enemies with the $21 billion
we've put into foreign factories
since 1945. I'm for "free trade"
with the world, just as soon as we
regain our freedoms at home-end·
ing union more pay-less work rack·
eteering, confiscatory taxation and
federal strangulation of free enter·
prise.
I'm for a notation on each of
Drew Pearson's columns showing
what he scored on the lie detector
test for that day's column. I'm for
the right to be prejudiced. People
are individuals endowed with God·
given freedom to arrive at differ·
ent conclusions and prejudices
from whatever facts they want to
explore. Or to say, like the dear
old lady: "Don't confuse me with
facts, my mind is made up."
Before having any Summit -
two·man or 20-man-I'm for mak·
ing the Kremlin prove its claim to
wanting peace by doing these
things:
(!) Lift the iron curtain to let
everybody out who wants out.
Freedom to leave is the essence
of democracy. Any country that
does not allow its citizens to leave
is a slave state.
(2) Agree to free elections in all
the satellite countries.
(3) Allow East Germany and
West Germany to vote on reunifi·
cation.
(4) Withdraw Chinese Commu­nist
troops from North Korea and
Ministers Who Advocate Racial Mixing
Are Merely Pawns Of The Soviet Union
Congress Is Asked To
Make The Country
Safe For Communists
Nothing is much more sickening
than the continued assertions of
Ministers of the Gospel that thei~
action in promoting the vulgar and
obscene mixing of the white and
black races is based on a Christian
There are hundreds of names spirit.
signed to the petition to the House
of -Representatives asking the If this is true, why did the so­abolishment
of the Un-American called forces of Christianity wait
Activities Committee of Congress. almost two thousand years to de.-1
cide that racial mixing was in a c.-
A Communist newspaper in New cordance with the principles of the
r~r~t~~~:n~lu~l!1he~o~~~nd~: Bible? I
tion for their efforts. Why did they wait until the
Hs~~h~0e~t~;e hl~:t a~a~o~~dp~~t ~:c~~li~i~i~~c~d4~s ~~~a~a~~n Ji~~
cover that this practice was in
stain our pages with their names keeping with the spirit of Christi~
~~:eof~~~ ~~s7~o~;r~o~~~ewith a anity? l
The coldblooded truth is that
the USSR dictates policies in the1
United States and e 1 sew her e1
Aubrey W. Williams of Alaba­ma;
Harry Bridges and Dr. Linus
Pauling of California; Negro Mar ..
tin Luther King of Georgia; Dr.
John A. Mackay of Maryland; Pro­fessor
Henry Steele Commager of
Massachusetts; Rev. Henry Hitt
Crane, of Michigan; Professor
Stringfellow Barr, of New Jersey;
Joseph Barnes, Helen Gahagan
Douglas, Carey McWilliams, Dr.
Reinhold Niebuhr and Eleanor
Roosevelt, of New York.
Almost every good American is
more or less familiar with the ac·
tivities of one or more of the above
who are typical examples of the
hundreds who ask Congress, in ef ..
feet, to make this country safe for
Communists.
For once we are in complete
agreement with Nikita Khrushchev.
He made a strong plea that the
headquarters of the United Nations
be taken out of the United States
and set up elsewhere, perhaps
Geneva. No greater service could
be rendered the U.S. than that this
international nest of spies be ban·
ished from our shores and we pray
that the Russian assassin, in this
one case, has his wish granted. It
would serve him right if it were
moved to Moscow where it belongs.
agree to free elections and unifi ..
cation.
(5) Free all enslaved states: free
elections, freedom of religion, as­sembly,
press.
I'm for killing foreign aid to all
enemies like Tito and Gomulka;
and to all "neutrals" like Nehru,
unless the United States gets stra­tegic
materials, war bases or other
concrete "value received." For
severing diplomatic relations with
all Communist governments.
For the original Bricker Amend·
ment, outlawing secret, unconsti·
tutional Presidential treaties not
ratified by Congress. For ending
all federal aid to education. For
vesting strict control and support
of the public schools in state and
local governments. For schools
which invest in teachers instead
of elevators and gymnasiums. For
schools which educate not society
but individuals. For the right of
states to give the pro rata cost of
tuition to the school chosen by
each child's parent: private, public,
segregated, integrated, Catholic,
Protestant, Jewish. I'm for freedom
of choice.
~~r."suf~~~!~~a~0{~~r~~~s t~!\:fiil
ti~n~ucational and other institu~
If the Soviets had not decreed
that mixing of the races on all
ke:~~ i~~~~e~o i~~~f~~t~~e ~o~~
and give Communism a foothold!
in the United States, not one Min~
ister in a hundred would now be
preaching racial mongrelizatiod.
and we would have racial unity irl:
this country on the scale that pre~
vailed before the Soviet Unionr'
which is anti-Christian, decided to
ten American Ministers of the Gos.
pel what was "Christian" in racial
practices. 1
In advocating the immoral mix.­ing
of whites and blacks these
church leaders are simply the
pawns of Russian Communists and
Christianity and the Bible have not
one single thing to do with it.
Why can't they be honest and
admit that they are merely carry·
ing out Kremlin instructions and
quit their hypocritical insistence
that they are acting in accord with
"Christian Principles?"
We know that our national lead ..
ers are not conscious enemies of
the American Republic and so the
only conclusion we can reach is
that they are unwitting dupes of
those who are. Otherwise they,
would occasionally, and in the law
of averages, adopt policies or pass
legislation designed to aid the citi·
zen and protect the internal se ..
curity of this country without any
regard whatever for the interest
and welfare of people of other
lands.
Here are the names of the mem·
bers of the House of Representa­tives
who voted against an ap•
propriation to continue the investi·
gations of the Un-American Activi·
ti~s Committee of Congress and
thereby went on record as syrnpa·
thetic to Communist infiltration of
the United States: James Roosevelt
~~ :J:~f~~:~: ~\~~a~r!~t~f RJ':O~ i
gon, William Ashley of Ohio, Rob­ert
Kastenmeier, Wisconsin and
Barrett O'Hara of Illinois. We won·
der how they can go to sleep at
night or how they can look their
fellowmen in the face.
Pogo I
'Americans Can Take
New Hope In Plan
To 'Eliminate Tyranny'
) In his call for a ten~year plan
to "spread ho:;>e. freedom and a
bet~er life throughout the Western
H~misphere" and in which he called
en Latin America to join, the Pres~
ident promised to "eliminate tyran­ny
from a hemisphere in which it
has no rightful place."
I This statement is one of the most
encouraging to emerge from the
White House since the new ad­ministration
came to power for if
the President's new plan really in­tends
to eliminate "tyranny from
the Western Hemisphere" that
means that the elimination will
have to begin in this country, to
be consistent.
Since the tyranny of the Supreme
Court and the Federal judiciary
over the Sovereign States of the
Union is all but total, and has
robbed those States of their Con­stitutional
Rights to conduct their
own affairs, the President's plan
to eliminate tyranny would seem
to offer hope that the States may
regain the authority conferred on
them by the Tenth Amendment to
the Constitution but of which they
have been robbed through the ex­ercise
of a measure of tyranny
which is unprecedented in the his­tory
of the Republic.
The Pre•ident indicated that he
would start off the Latin American
program by spending $500,000,000
as soon as Congress votes it which
of couse seems like a lot of money
to a nation which is already nearly
$300,000,000,000.00 in debt but if
its objectives are accomplished and
tyranny is eliminated in all sec­tions
of the Western Hemisphere,
including the United States, it
would seem to us to be money well
spent.
I There is no price that reSponsi­ble
Americans would not be will-
\ !~~a~~yp:; ~~e~~fs~~ t~Y b~~~h~n~~
~to. n bureaucracy and we believe all
good Americans will heartily ap­prove
the President's plan to elim­inate
it.
\We Can't Buy Gold
~~ut Foreigners Can
• Said the Tennessee Independ­'
ents, Sevierville, Tennessee to
members of that State's delegation 1jn Congress:
• '
1We are told as individuals that
ra~J~n:~J i~~~a::J~l~~~ ~~e~~~
)t~~ti~~:t g?v~~g G~;~~";,~IT~on~u~~
'bur tax dollars to foreigners who
'inay exchange them for American
'gold.
: ;:fno~h:t~~igub~~ ~e t~!? United
·states of America is the lawmak­~
ng power vested in the Congress?
' "Has Congress passed a law pro­ltlbiting
the purchase of gold by
~Americans abroad, while permit-
~~~ ~~~~:~e~~~l~r:x~~:ni~~J::~~
gold?
' · "If Congress has not passed such
11'1aw, then how can this edict have
'any validity?
· "Surely Congress, by default,
jhas not transferred its lawmaking
~~;;:mtg ~~~J.xuc~t~:s.nfue~o ~~;
not adjourn and come on home?"
THE SOUTHERN CONSERVATIVE
Just How 'Conservative' Are Our
Members Of Congress From The South?
The people of the South have al­ways
had great respect for South­ern
members of the House and
Senate and especially with regard
to the issues of segregation and
civil rights although deploring their
Socialistic positions on other vital­ly
important matters in which they
vote with Liberals from the North
and East.
But more and more there is com­ing
to be some doubt of their
sincerity in racial matters especial~
ly in view of the fact that all mem­bers
of Southern delegations with
the exception of William Colmer
and John Bell Williams of Missis­sippi
and possibly one or two others
went right down the line for Ken­nedy's
championship of racial mix­ing
on all levels.
When they had the opportunity
to support the Independent Elec·
tors plan and perhaps throw the
election into the House of Repre­sentatives
but chose instead to
support a known enemy of the
South and its racial policies, their
defense of segregation became
more academic than actual, it is
being argued.
The time to stop Kennedy in his
assault on the racial customs of
the South, it is pointed out, was
during the campaign and Southern
representatives had the alternative
of the Independent Electors plan
in which they refused to cooperate.
To support him in the campaign
and defy him now may be good
New Frontier politics and an ef­fective
way of keeping their party
Ninth World Wonder
The Ancients listed seven wond­ers
of the world-the Pyramids,
the Hanging Gardens of Babylon,
Phidias' Statue of Zeus, the Temple
of Ephesus, the Tomb of Mausolus,
the Colossus of Rhodes and the
Pharos of Alexandria. Now the
New Haven, (Mo.) Leader, suggests
that two additional wonders be
added-"The American Economic
System" and "Lack of Understand·
ing About How It Operates."
That economic system h a s
brought us unprecedented material
benefits-and, a degree of person ..
at freedom never before experienc­ed
in organized society.
But the Leader says: "The ninth
wonder of the world might be de­scribed
as an apparent willingness
of the American people to give up
this system because of a lack of
appreciation and understanding of
how the system works .•• there
is an increasing dependency upon
the very thing (Government) which
leads to socialism, restricts our
freedom, and hinders the incentive
which made this country success ..
ful."
The history of our time has been
a sorry record of the destruction
of freedom and of human rights
and privileges by all-powerful gov·
ernments. We have seen it the
world around. Yet, step by step,
we have been beguiled down an
ominously similar path. It isn't too
late to turn back and to limit gov·
ernment to powers which only gov­ernment
can exercise. But that
turning can't be delayed too long.
-The Fort Worth Recorder.
record straight, but it is more and
more becoming recognized as cow ..
ardly surrender of principle to ex ..
pediency.
Also the way the confirmation
of Robert C. Weaver, Negro ap­pointee
for Housing Administrator
and strong advocate of racially
mixed housing projects. was
handled does not set well with
many Southerners now that sev­eral
incidents in connection with
that affair are leaking out.
A Red New York weekly news­paper
has told boastfully of "strat­egy
meetings" held in advance of
the vote on Weaver's confirmation
attended by the nominee and sev­eral
senators, including two South­erners,
in which it was agreed that
lawmakers from the South be al­lowed
to blow off steam and op­pose
Weaver "for the record" after
which the confirmation would pro ..
ceed.
Such log-rolling and dirty pool
has caused expressions of doubt
as to whether representatives of
the South actually are concerned
in preventing racial mixing or are
more interested in writing a record
which will aid in their election the
next time they are up.
Also their Liberal attitude on
major Socialistic issues in which
they vote with the CIO-PAC and
Americans for Democratic Action,
as revealed by the ACA Index, is
causing increasing comment among
voters q_f the South whose concep­tion
of Conservatism means not
only the repudiation of integration
but of all other Communist· inspired
proposals as well.
Too, the President's unforgiv­able
action in appointing his own
integration-conscious little brother
as attorney general of the United
States was upheld by Southern
senators, at least one of whom
blatted all over the Senate about
how well qualified Robert Ken­nedy
was for the job.
This, of course, is not true and
the senator knew when he said it
that it was not true. Young Ken ..
nedy's only experience as a prose­cutor
was as counsel for a Senate
rackets committee in which he vig­orously
exposed one union rack­eteer
and just as vigorously pro ..
tected another who was later to
render valuable service to Jack
Kennedy in his campaign for Pres­ident.
Now that young Robert Is be·
ginning to issue injunctions against
Southern officials to prevent them
from running their own schools,
this same senator will probably
make headlines in opposition but
his protests will no longer make
sense to informed citizens of the
South.
What the South needs In the
United States Senate is more Harry
F. Byrds and in the House more
Bruce Algers.
These level-headed statesmen
not only vote against integration
and so-called civil rights but against
all other Communist-sparked pro­posals
as well.
Loyalty to the U nlted Nations
is treason to the United States.
March, 1961
Communist Attack On
Spain And Portuqal
To Get Under Way
In the February edition of the
Southern Conservative we predict­ed
Portugal and Spain would be
the next subjects of attack by
World Communism and said in
part:
Pr~~f: ~~tc;:~~:a~~o~~o ~~ia~~~
skids because he is anti-Commu­nist
dictator .... Franco being an
all-out anti-Communist will prob­ably
be the next man up and if
our State Department runs true
to form, it will help bowl him
over."
On March 13th a New York
weekly newspaper which promotes
the Communist line carried a front
page article titled: "Committee for
a Democratic Spain." Officers of
the committee include some of
those whose names are familiar to
Americans from having appeared
in the files of committees investi­gating
un-American activities.
This committee was quoted as
saying in part: "Throughout Franco
Spain there are significant stirrings
of revolt. Important groups simi­lar
to this committee are active in
Great Britain. France and Latin
America .... We intend close liai­son
and cooperation with all these
efforts. We greet the recent up­surge
of resistance to Franco's fel­low-
dictator Salazar in neighbor­ing
Portugal as part of the irresist·
ible drive for the elimination of
dictators from the entire Iberian
Peninsula."
The committee announces that
it is its intention "to make the
26th anniversary of the beginning
of the Spanish Civil War, which
occurs on July 19, 1961, a special
period of rededication to the free­dom
of the Spanish people."
We don't especially relish being
a prophet of doom but the way in
which our predictions concerning
coming events materialize is dis­concerting
even to us. Perhaps our
ability to hit the hull's eye so fre­quently
is because we dwell on the
subject of World Communist prop­aganda
and have learned to anti ..
cipate the direction it will take.
American textile industry lead­ers
told a committee of Congress
that unless the low-cost import
flood of textiles to this country is
sotfo pped they are either "going out business or take their business
out of the United States." Unfor ..
tunately, they will probably find
that Congress couldn't care less if
they move their factories abroad.
After all, we are Ooe-Worlders,
we are, and we don't care any
more about the welfare of an
American manufacturer than we
do about that of one in Hindustan.
Dean Rusk, the new Secretary of
State, is quoted as having implied
in a 1952 Rockefeller Foundation
Report that if this country did not
recognize Red China it might bring
on a "color war." We have news
for the gentleman in the striped
pants. The "color war" is already
on. It was started at the Bandung
Conference, April 18, 1955, in In­donesia.
And we have some more
news. The white race is losing the
"color war," just as it was intended
to do. "It was planned that way.''